Word: fields
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What makes Hallmark's size all the more impressive is that it comes in a field that, for all the bunnies and babies and Santas smiling up from its cheery face, is as ruggedly competitive as any business in the U.S. With some 290 firms turning out 5 billion cards each year, for every event from the cradle to the grave, a special kind of genius is needed to grab off about 30% of a $288 million market. Hallmark's boss abundantly has that genius...
...Arena. It is an exciting, if exacting spectator sport to see a spirited logician in broken-field running (using the split-hair formation) tear through a platoon of Platonists or a squad of schoolmen. Russell puts living and dead philosophers in the same intellectual arena. Turning to 6th century B.C. Greece, for example, he respects Anaximander's intuition that man is biologically related to fish, but laughs at his injunction that therefore man should not eat fish. "Whether our brethren of the deep cherish equally delicate sentiments towards us is not recorded," Russell snuffles in a donnish gibe...
...been more than a year since that modern American morality play, The Ugly American, hit the scene with its less than surprising revelations about State Department boobery abroad. Whatever its literary drawbacks--and they were great--the book did arouse public interest in an important field...
Although taking the field in its opener after less than a week of practice, the team whipped Tufts easily, 33 to 6. In its next game the freshmen were clearly outclassed by Boston College and showed that it needed more unity in order to avoid similar humiliations. Against B.C. quarterbacks Charlie Kinney and Terry Bartolet proved to be talented passers although they were quickly rushed on every attempt. The playing of a few individuals was the only bright spot that afternoon and was a sign of things to come for the 1959 freshman...
Among the standouts on the team was of course Kinney, a very talented ball-handler and an accurate passer. He had a field day against Yale although most of his teammates did not, as he completed 16 out of 33 passes...